Very cool news. My guess is that the Skylab version would be just the shroud, but I will live in false hope that a kit (albeit on the small size) might be released of the station in earth orbit. Hey it's Santa Claus season, so I might as well dream !

I just checked and the third stage molding will be replaced with a new one which will have all the features of the orbital workshop in the stowed launch config. The aft end will be replaced with the parts to make it look like the workshop, so no J-2.

The shroud will be in two halves but no front end (docking hardware, ATM, etc) will be included. But it's a start!!

So we are getting a new Saturn V kit with the Skylab payload.

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The world's coming to an end: Round 2 has announced they are releasing the TOS E next year in 1/350th scale. Actually, if they change their mind or get bought out, their world WILL come to an end....

Thanks for the update. Yes, it is a start. Seems like someone at Airfix at least has put their thinking cap on and has come up with a way to maximize their 40+ year old Saturn tooling.

So now we have a corrected CSM and LEM Shroud for both the Saturn V and 1B and options for a Skylab launch version of the Saturn V with corrected SIV B and Skylab Shroud.

With this approach, wouldn't a new tool 1/48th CSM have great possibilities ? You could issue the CSM, then add the LM (ala Revell's Old Apollo Spacecraft set). You could then expand to an SIV B stack, then modify the stack to be SkyLab with a docked CSM. And you would pay for the tooling only - no royalties to some aerospace or car company as is required for many kits these days.

Thanks for posting that Refit,that's some cool news in my book!
I'd be keen on getting both the 1b and also the Skylab Saturn V.
I might just have to save one of the new release Saturn V's i got for a later time now and display em all together.Even though the corrected part's in these kit's isn't what some of the SS builders are looking for,as a display piece and what it's intended to be,they will be much more authentic to look at now.

Now, even if I WERE to attend, y'all better keep them costume wearing types away from me. I don't like you model people. How I ever got hooked up with you geeks, I'll never know. I lived all this time, just to end up spending my days with fucking "Skill Level 3" and "Ages 8 and up". --Eagle-1, the funniest bastard on Earth!